Jeno Ratz

Jeno Ratz (20 September 1882-1949) was Minister of Defense of Hungary in 1938, succeeding Vilmos Roder and preceding Karoly Bartha.

Biography
Jeno Ratz was born in Nagybecskerek, Hungary, Austria-Hungary (now Veliki Beckerek, Vojvodina, Serbia) on 20 September 1882, and he enlisted in the Austro-Hungarian Army in 1904. Ratz fought in World War I and in the communist upheaval after the war, and he served as Chief of the General Staff from 1936 to 1938, succeeding Jozsef Somkuthy and preceding Lajos Keresztes-Fischer. In 1938, he briefly served as Minister of Defense, and he later served in the House of Representatives. After World War II, the People's Tribunal sentenced him to death, but he was later sentenced to life imprisonment, and he died in 1949.